2007 onwards, Bridge Engineering at Tongji University decided to open a new course “Concept Bridge Design” for graduate students in order to bring forward a new generation of bridge engineers with conceptual design capabilities to overcome the shortcoming in innovative ideas quality and aesthetic considerations in China’s bridge engineering.
combining the steel materials department and concrete structures department into a new “conceptual and structural design” department, and the three full professors no longer taught “Steel Design”, “Design of Concrete Structures” according to the standard methods of analysis and design methods, instead, they taught conceptual design and structural design methods about all types of building materials according to the structure (bridges, tall buildings and space structures) to strengthen the cultivation of students’ innovative ideas and ability, not only the basic design skills. He introduced ongoing civil engineering education reform at Berlin University, i.e.
Schlaich of the Department of Civil Engineering of the Technical University of Berlin published a report entitled “The challenge of education - conceptual and structural design,” at the General Assembly. In the 2006 annual meeting of the International Bridge Engineering in Budapest, Professor M. In the new textbook “Bridge Project” published in 2004, all articles, chapters, sections arranged basically inherited the former Soviet Union old textbooks except some necessary changes under the new requirements. Since the reform and opening up, department setup started to follow the discipline line and became to follow the international system, but the industry’s influence remained. Those were teaching materials with practicality in mind, i.e., students were taught to design according to design specifications. In the 1950s and 1960s, most engineering textbooks translated from the former Soviet Union. Arts and Sciences were combined into general university, resulting in the separation of engineering and Arts and Sciences, an unfavorable situation for engineering education. Engineering Colleges were grouped into civil engineering, electrical and mechanical engineering, hydraulic engineering, chemicals, mining, aviation, geology, transportation and other colleges to meet the industrial needs for engineers and technicians. Clock Tower, Ludhiana (Pb.) Printed at Repro India Ltd., New Delhi (INDIA)Īfter the 1952 adjustment, China’s Higher Education in Science and Technology basically inherited the former Soviet system, namely, establishing universities corresponding to industrial sections. Subhash Bhargav Lane, Near Delhi Medical Association, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002 (INDIA) H.O. Kataria & Sons 4885/109, Prakash Mahal, Dr. 3 Waiguan Xiejie Street, Andingmenwai, Chao Yang District, Beijing (100011) ISBN: 978-93-5014-583-8 First Indian Edition: 2015 Published by: S.K. English Translated Version Printed in India in association with China Communication Press, No. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. Although every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher and author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions.
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